Sonstein Sessions

Original Air Date: June 8, 2025 Jake Sumner is the director of the doc “Ron Delsener Presents”, the story of a self-made concert industry legend and his start in NYC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 1, 2025 Garland Jeffreys is a Brooklyn-born singer/songwriter who was way ahead of his time. Now in the late staged of Alzheimer’s Disease, his wife and partner of 40 plus years is out with a love letter to him with the doc “The King Of In Between”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 1, 2025 Who says the Rom-Com is dead??  Even “The New York Times” loves “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”. Laura Piani directed and Claire Rutherford star in a movie that will get people to read more books!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 25, 2025 Founded by the great NY Met Rusty Staub, Answer The Call immediately gives $50,000 to the families of NYC 1stresponders killed in the line of duty and then gives families another stipend every year  to use as they see fit. Lauren Profeta is the executive director of this amazing organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 25, 2025 Tunnel To Towers holds its 9th WTC climb up the 104 stories Sunday June 1st. I am proud to lead a team of 22 Q104.3 listeners in this year’s climb. T2T CEO & President Frabk Siller details the good work T2T does. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 18, 2025 Dr. Brendan Guarino, who grew up listening to Q104.3, thanks to  his parents, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the mental health of first responders. 5/17 begins EMS Week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 18, 2025 Colin Blunstone was still in high school  when he joined the Zombies, the group that gave us “Time Of The Season” , “She’s Not There” and more. Colin didn’t like “Time Of The Season” and either did The Zombies’ record label. When it became a huge hit, they had already broken up and Colin was working in insurance! He calls failure a great learning lesson. See omnystu...

Original Air Date: May 11, 2025 Ada Karmi Melamede is a woman you probably never heard of , though as an architect, she created some of the best known buildings in Israel. Her daughter, Yael, almost followed in her footsteps  but ended up as an Oscar-winning  film director with her doc “Ada: My Mother The Architect”   now in theaters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 11, 2025 Maureen Spataro of Freehold is a survivor of sexual abuse as a child and domestic abuse as an adult.  She and the Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation have teamed up to put rooms in NJ police stations, serving as sanctuaries for victims of sexual assault & domestic violence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 4, 2025 The Action Play musical “Dimensions & Dragons” is coming to the 14th Street YMCA May 17 & 18, a show created by and starring actors on the autism spectrum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: May 4, 2025 Erin Kenny is the overnight senior manager for the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention. June 21st, AFSP will hold their Out Of The Darkness Overnight Walk  to raise awareness and funds for suicide prevention.  Erin says a much earlier walk saved her own life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 27, 2025 What happens to foster children once they turn 18 and age out of the system that provided housing and protection?  Many end up homeless. Roots & Wings NJ is coming to their aid. Edith Fiato is the executive director. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 27, 2025 Leading 9/11 advocate John Feal is heading to DC  on 4/28 with his army of survivors- pushing to get Congress to restore  job cuts to the 9/11 World Trade Center Health Program. The cuts are endangering lives of our heroes, along with other 9/11 survivors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 20, 2025 Coming up 4/25: the 4th annual Broadway Celebrates Earth Day with a free show in the heart of Times Square. Longtime Broadway actor Mara Davi is one of the organizers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 20, 2025 Our own Maria Milito will be MC’ing the big fundraiser 6/25 at the Cutting Room (go to their website for tix) for The Raven Drum foundation, created 24 years ago by Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen and his wife, Lauren Monroe. Their big mission now is to help treat PTSD in first responders and veterans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 13, 2025 NYC Earth Day Initiative is coming up Thursday, April 17!!!  Find out what you can do to help protect the environment, listening to Earth Day Initiative Executive Director Jon Oppermann. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 13, 2025 With expected cuts to FEMA, World Cares Center (dedicated to hyper local disaster response while keeping 1st responders safe) will become an even more critical service. Lisa Orloff founded this great group after she volunteered in the days after 9/11 24 years ago. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 6, 2025 Every year, Sweden and other Nordic countries are listed as the happiest on earth.  Why? They practice lagom. Kortney Yasenka is the author of the book “Swedish Lagom: Finding Joy In Just Enough”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: April 6, 2025 Dr. Gregory Carnevale is the Chief Medical Office for United Health Care commercial line of insurance. Among the topics discussed: diabetes; why so many young people are getting  cancer and  why you should appeal if your insurance claim is denied. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 30, 2025 Thinking of running for office in NYC? The NYC Campaign Finance Board has a matching funds program!! Press Secretary Tim Hunter as all the details! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 30, 2025 Kelly Mallon Young is the COO of Sister Rising Worldwide. That’s sisters as in nuns doing tremendous work all over the world! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 23, 2025 “Game Of Thrones” and “The Tudors” actor Natalie Dormer stars as Dr. Audrey Evans, a hidden figure of history: a children’s cancer pioneer and the co-founder of  the very first Ronald McDonald House in Philly. The movie “Audrey’s Children” was directed by Ami Canaan Mann. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 23, 2025 We just lost Youngbloods founder Jesse Colin Young to a heart attack at 83. His career and almost his life was ruined by health and mental health issues caused by long undiagnosed Lyme Disease. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 16, 2025 The NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade is the oldest and largest in the world!  James O’Leary and Donna McGuire of The Emerald Society discuss the proud heritage and history of Irish-Americans and the parade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: March 16, 2025 The New York Jets are the biggest proponents and supporters of girls flag football and just created a New York Jets girls flag football travelling team! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.